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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 12h

Unless we have a properly built debarment regime we will be back here again. The Govt must have the power to impose appropriately apportioned bans (for up to 5 years) from Govt contracts for bad behaviour.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 3h

Wait for the executive order announcing 5000% tariff on inflatable character costumes

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steph harmon @stephharmon.bsky.social · 10h

Peter Combe goes hard: “Children are being slaughtered, on a daily basis, for almost two years. Our ability to ignore it astounds me. You can talk to any NGO, they all say the same thing – it’s a genocide ... I hope people aren’t surprised I feel the way I do." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

The passion – and politics – of Peter Combe: ‘Children are wonderful critics because they’re very intolerant’

Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, Newspaper Mama, Toffee Apple … the children’s entertainer who has sold more than 1m albums and DVDs reflects on his 40-year career, childhood and speaking up

www.theguardian.com

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 6h

$700 a week for a room in a rooming house in Upper Mount Gravatt is where we’re at I guess

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 4h

I'm pretty sure we can all understand Lidia Thorpe was speaking using a metaphor www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AFP probes Lidia Thorpe's 'burn down Parliament House' remark

The Australian Federal Police has issued a rare statement confirming it is investigating whether independent senator Lidia Thorpe broke any laws by saying she was prepared to "burn down Parliament Hou...

www.abc.net.au

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 9h

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 13h

Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the first time. www.theguardian.com/...

One Big Chart from @nickevershed.bsky.social

Electricity generation from renewables has overtaken coal for the first time in Australia

Hand drawn graph Showing terawatt hours of electricty generated per month from coal and renewable sources

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 1d

Record heat again in INDONESIA

Pontianak today recorded a minimum temperature of 26.1C, its hottest October night in history.
This city in Borneo ,located close to the equator line, has been breaking the hot nights records nearly every month.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV

Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Half of the population projected to experience critical food shortages by mid-2026 as armed groups block aid.

Six million people in Haiti face acute hunger as gang violence spreads

Half of the population projected to experience critical food shortages by mid-2026 as armed groups block aid.

bit.ly

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrity culture replaced the aristocracy

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 1d

we should start calling him Regent Miller.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 1d

while USA is lauded for negotiating release of Israeli hostages, in its ICE centres thousands are held in poor conditions without charge, without representation, without information, without access to communication.
Aren't they hostages?
#USAIsNotASeriousCountry

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 1d

It would be really great if ABC Australia would devote as much time and effort to AUSTRALIAN news from ALL states and territories as it does to news about the USA.
Important news stories that more directly affect Australians are relegated in bulletins or completely overlooked.
#RespectTheCharter

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d

Damn Right. . .

Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 1d

Americans complaining about Qatar building a base on American soil have got to be tone deaf.
Do they really think that the citizens of all the countries where there are American bases wanted them in their country?
I doubt it. I don’t want American bases in Australia.

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Dumbe Blonde @dumbeblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Australians rejected Dutton so they didn’t get the Liberal Party and instead they got the Liberal Party

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 2d

Warnings about how to avoid a paper trail that might later be accessed by an FOI request are part of the induction kit for new political staffers. Even the acronym has its own crude nickname in the ministerial wing: “FOI. Fuck Off Idiot.” satpa.pe/zPB9QFA

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

satpa.pe

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 2d

Over 7000 Palestinian hostages will remain in Israeli prisons.

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2d

'There are more than 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli detention, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service, 87 per cent of whom have never been charged or convicted.'

Sounds legit.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Israel publishes names of 250 Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Israel's Ministry of Justice provides the names of prisoners it will release in exchange for Israeli hostages, but Hamas says no agreement has been reached.

www.abc.net.au

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

Do Americans believe his fantasies?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

They also like a whipper snipper

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

What does it say (for the non Football followers please)?

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

Try Epson Ecotank - we just replaced the old one to great relief, and it was recommended by CHOICE

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

The normalisation of right-wing populism with all its authoritarian traits as a legitimate form of "democracy" is disheartening.

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

What's the budget?

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Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe look a bit closer at her resume - I just did.

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